Source: Twitter/@stevezie_f
Tweets of the week: A ‘Shrek’ rave grows in Brooklyn?
Plus: Finding the deep space Bushwick, a "buttered roll" kerfuffle in Bay Ridge, Crown Heights love, and Park Slope chocolate on lock
Every week we at Brooklyn Magazine read the entire internet in order to curate (some of) our favorite tweets from the previous seven days. These are locally sourced, hand-crafted, organically grown, free range nuggets of wisdom and jest for the week ending July 15.
https://twitter.com/luoser/status/1546544363773300738
Somewhere in this mess of seemingly infinite possibility within the universe, there are probably like at least 4 or 5 alien versions of Bushwick https://t.co/w5Ed7b4R56
— adam crouch (@theadamcrouch) July 12, 2022
The DJ playing in front of Crown Heights Medical & Pulmonary doesn't need to be going this hard
— David Grossman (@davidgross_man) July 12, 2022
Anyway went to drop off July rent ah my new apartment and left with a plate full of baked goods from my new landlord. I do literally love crown heights pic.twitter.com/VHeJGQHafB
— Liba Hannah MPH (@Kosherqueen_) July 11, 2022
Some guys think that, in a pinch, they could land a plane or hit an MLB fastball. Me? I could open a successful store in Fort Greene with a focus on Japanese menswear and select made in USA basics
— hanson o'haver (@HansonOHaver) July 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/Evan_Biking/status/1547226667206180865
https://twitter.com/JamesonCamp/status/1547329185638670338
Apparently there was a shrek rave in Brooklyn this weekend? And it was sold out…Just slamming remixes of the soundtrack. Lol
— KyWilliam (@KyWilliammusic) July 10, 2022
PITCH: a High Maintenance-style anthology series that follows the comically diverse patrons of a bed-stuy gloryhole as their lives intersect in surprising ways. hog.
— c y b e r h u n k (@spunky_hunk) July 8, 2022
https://twitter.com/stevezie_f/status/1545509552459767813?s=21
Y’all when I tell you we was chillin out front of the trans comedy/variety show and a middle aged black man bummed a cigarette who told us he was a jazz musician about to play next door with Ravi Coltrane…. I fuckin love Brooklyn and specifically Flatbush
— Jamilah Understilah (@sandyloamsandy) July 8, 2022
https://twitter.com/Maggie_Fisch/status/1547418536250949633
https://twitter.com/maxfrombk/status/1546261660242960385?s=21
everyone in Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/RsUQMQxLGe
— nolan (@anxiousdeluxe) July 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/elizabethsyso/status/1545820136153776135
Sonny Rollins Williamsburg Bridge?
橋の改名運動は2017年から始まっているようですね。もうすぐ92歳のロリンズさん。ご健在ですが早く決まるといいですね。 この橋、私も思い出深いです。 pic.twitter.com/oT88CFJDYe
— Riverwilde Cafe (@RWS_TJ) July 10, 2022
Tony Sirico outside The Gran Caffe in Bensonhurst, New York City, 17th May 1990. pic.twitter.com/NOhX854P2u
— Mafia Legacy (@themafialegacy) July 13, 2022
Buster Keaton in Coney Island (1917) pic.twitter.com/zw8uhcncY9
— Silent Movie GIFs (@silentmoviegifs) July 13, 2022
Carlotta Stewart was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York but moved to Hawaii in 1898 at age 18 and became the first Black American school principal in Honolulu at the age of 28 pic.twitter.com/0wxLmGdK0g
— Non-Human Media (@NonHumanMedia1) July 9, 2022
